Main bio
Simone Zeefuik is a writer, cultural programmer, dramaturg and tea critic. Aside from the actual pen-to-paper part of things, her writing process includes listening to playlists which pair Colombian cumbia with Sahelian blues and watching films. Many, many films… With her writings, podcasts and programs she centres Blackness in general and Afro-Dutchness in particular. Zeefuik enjoys lang walks on the Eurostar platforms and writes most of her notes in Rotterdam, London, Bruxelles and her home in Amsterdam-Bijlmer. As someone who firmly believes in amplifying the works of the older generations of her artistic and intellectual genealogies, she finds it important to salute the groundbreaking work of Ellin Robles, prof. Gloria Wekker, Domenica Ghidei Biidu, Tania Leon, Alem Desta, Chrisje Comvalius, Ernestine Comvalius, Andre Reeder, Frank Dragtenstein, Roy Wijks, Jules Rijssen, Felix de Rooy, Felix Burleson, Ronald Snijders, Eddy Veldman, Frank Zichem, Légène Zeefuik and many more of their peers.

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Zeefuik wrote the script for Sisterhood, the play which Romana Vrede directed for Theater Rotterdam. The piece centered seven women and their takes on friendships, the World Cup, environmental justice, belonging and an imagined protest in support of president Ibrahim Traoré. The play’s main question is: “What’s the maximum distance between Sisters who claim to be on the same side of things?” Sisterhood premiered on March 8 2026 and toured the Netherlands until April 28 of this year.

Since 2023 Zeefuik has worked as a dramaturg and a writing coach for playwrights for various institutions, including Theater Bellevue (Amsterdam) and Theater Rotterdam. 2023 was also the year that Zeefuik, Ira Kip and Romana Vrede initiated PaarsPaars, PaarsPaars, the conversation-platform where Black and NBPOC makers, thinkers, artists, writers and enthusiasts offer reflections on theater, film and visual art. A year later, in 2024 and after almost a decade of being a big fan, Zeefuik joined the programming team of Amsterdam’s international literature festival Read My World.

Contact info
Instagram: @lazeefuik
E-mail: writezeefuik@gmail.com 

Work related questions: Organisations, institutions and individuals without a crew-verified track record of actively amplifying voices and initiatives from the communities Simone Zeefuik is a part of and/or stands in solidarity with, are kindly urged to include a fee in their first work proposal. This includes ‘hopping on a quick call’ and ‘maybe just a few thoughts’. As for the ‘tea or coffee so I can pick your brain’-requests, Zeefuik is delighted to inform you that she has tea in her home and she’s properly hydrated.